What is the equivalent in C# of strtol function in C

[Mukesh Motwani]

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[Clay Burch]

You can use the static System.Int64.Parse method to convert a string to a signed 8-byte integer. In general, all the numeric types have this static Parse method.

string s = "12345678";

long x = Int64.Parse(s);

More generally, you can also use the System.Convert class to handle conversion among types.

[Mukesh Motwani]

System.Convert.ToInt64 works fine if there are no spaces. If I have a string like "128 128" and if the number of white spaces is not known using the code below in C, we can easily find the numeric variables.
/*C code*/
char string="128 128",*ptr;
NO_COL=strtol(string,&ptr,0);
NO_ROW=atoi(ptr);

The string is scanned up to the first
character inconsistent with the base. Leading "white-space" characters are ignored.
If the value of ptr is not (char **)NULL, a pointer to the character terminating the scan is returned in the location pointed to by ptr.

Is there an equivalent function in C# which will tells us the index in the string where the first character inconsistent with the base is returned using the different Formating Types provided by C#.

Thanks
Mukesh

> You can use the static System.Int64.Parse method to convert a string to a signed 8-byte integer. In general, all the numeric types have this static Parse method.
>
> string s = "12345678";
>
> long x = Int64.Parse(s);
>
> More generally, you can also use the System.Convert class to handle conversion among types.
>
>

[Clay Burch]

If your whitespace is really spaces, then you could strip them out with code such as this.

string s = "123 45678";

long x = Int64.Parse(s.Replace(" ", ""));